Bicycle-saddle



(No Model.)

B. S. SEAMAN. BICYCLE SADDLE.

No. 591,145. Patented Oct. 5, 1897 WITNESSES J1 ilarmy/ bicycle-saddles; and it consists of certain fea Nrrnn STATES A'INI 7 OFFICE.

BENJAMIN S. SEAMAN, OF CANTON, OHIO.

BICYC LE-SADOD LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,145, dated October 5, 1897.

Application filed July 17, 1896. Serial No. 599,476. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. SEAMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Saddles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tures of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide means for securing the saddle to the post.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a saddle which may be provided with my improved clamp. Fig. 2 is a plan View from below. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a perspective of saddle-frame. Fig. 5 is a similar view of pommel-frarne. Fig. 6 is a similar view of tension-screw. Fig. 7 is a similar view of a cross-bar by which the seat-leather is secured to the frame. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section through the scat-clamp. Fig. 9 is a side View of the clamp. Fig. 10 is a perspective of the clamp with jaws and nuts removed. Fig. 11 is a similar view of the inside jaw-piece. Fig. 12 is a similar view of the outside jaw-piece, and Fig. 13 is a similar view of the tightening-nut.

The saddle-frame is formed of the cantle A, the pommel-support B, and the connecting branches of the spring 0 and adj usting-screw I), supported in the socket E. Over this frame is placed and properly secured a soft rawhide cover F, the rear end portion of which is secured to the cantle A and the front end to the pommel-frame B, which is supported onthe front end of the adjusting-screw D. For the purpose of ventilation the rawhide is perforated, as shown. To curl or draw in the lower ed es or sides of the rawhide a buckle be drawn inwardly, as shown. Over this rawhide is placed the seat-leather H, secured in position at its front end by the bar J and at the rear end by lacing to the cantle A, as shown, thus forming a soft or yielding saddle.

To secure the saddle to the post K, a clampand strap G are secured to the sides and may ing-head, as L, is provided, having prongs a,

having a kerf b in each of said prongs, in which is placed a clamping-bit c, a portion of which is adapted to pass through the wall of the clamp L to engage the post K. The outer face of said bit a is adapted to embrace the Wire spring 0. A clamping-bit, as (1, having outwardly-projecting wing portions e and a face f, adapted to embrace the wire spring 0', is placed inthe kerf b to engage the outer side of the wire spring. On the ends of the prongs a is provided a screw-thread on which is turned the binding-nut M, resting on the wings e of the bit 01, which latter is drawn against the wire 0 and bit 0, clamping the wire and driving a portion of the bit 0 against the post K, thereby securing the parts in desired adjustment.

Toadjust the saddle on the post K or to adjust the spring in the clamp, the nuts M may be slacked and the saddle orclamp adjusted and the nutturned on again to secure the parts in desired adjustment.

What I claim is In abicycle-saddle and in combination with post K, and spring 0, of the clamp L, having kerfed prongs a, in which are placed clampbits 0 and (Z, the former adapted to engage the post, the latter in conjunction with the former to engage the spring O and the tightening-nut M, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of June, A. D. 1896. BENJAMIN S. SEAMAN. Witnesses:

MILLER, BURT A. MILLER. 

